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A seated man in a rust-red saffron robe and a black-and-white patterned turban with a crescent ornament sits in front of a bowl of powders during an aushada preparation ritual. He wears a large rudraksha mala and bead bracelets, and gestures with his right hand while speaking into a microphone on a stand. Before him are brass bowls of yellow turmeric, red kumkum and other powders, a silver vessel and a small blue pot. Two tall painted guardian statues in orange and green flank a wooden door, and a flower-decorated silver palanquin sits at right.